This final impacting speech serves as the climax of the play and supports the suspense of Hamlet's actions, and the excitement of Claudius" well-deserved death. ... Shakespeare creates this suspense by the set-up of the play. ... Hamlet's little action and many thoughts contribute to the suspense and excitement of what he will do now. ... The suspense leading up to Claudius" death is captured, and the feeling of excitement engulfed as Hamlet delivered his revenge. ...

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Charles Johnson used suspense to show how every decision the main character made is a tough decision. ... This suspense and feeling of not knowing really adds to the tone of the story. ... As Johnson incorporated suspense he also incorporated ambiguity. ... Suspense and ambiguity are useful literary writing styles. Suspense kept the audience interested and questioning. ...

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Suspense is a pleasurable excitement which is usually evoked by a mysterious situation or regards an outcome. ... Suspense is created in the story through the use of foreshadowing. ... Uncertainty is another way to create suspense, it also ties into foreshadowing which was previously talked about. Uncertainty creates suspense, because the reader has to infer, and anticipate what is to happen. ... Suspense can be created using many different techniques. ...

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Shakespeare builds up the suspense before breaking it all down with the death of this main character. ... As Caesar's death draws near we see Shakespeare's use of suspense. ... Act 2 Scene 4 is a short dramatic scene that helps create suspense in the play as Artemidorus is determined to help save Caesar. ... In Anthony's soliloquy, he foreshadows the utter chaos that Rome goes under which adds more suspense to the play. ... In Julius Caesar, the suspense builds up until it eventually collapses in the central event of the play; Caesar's death. ...

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Alfred Hitchcock, the world renowned master of suspense, has had many imitators over the year. ... Both films can be compared thematically as well as structurally to the best of Hitchcock's suspense thrillers. ... Another technique in the film that resembles Hitchcock style is using unique camera angles to create suspense. ... In "Panic Room" the suspense comes from the confined living space, a scene with a neighbor provides the most suspenseful moment, and the audience sees almost everything from Jodie Foster's perspective. ... "Insomnia" is also reminiscent of Hitchcock films in...

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The playwrights used many techniques to create suspense in Dracula, but what where these techniques, and how did the playwrights use them to create suspense? ... Suspense was created in many forms by the playwrights in the play Dracula. ... This helps to build suspense because no one can imagine seeing nothing so people's imagination fills the gap. ... There are many bizarre coincidences that really help to construct a mood of suspense in Dracula. ... The character Dracula also contributes to creating suspense as well. ...

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Suspense. ... The author first led suspense in to his story right at the beginning. ... The suspense here is that the reader doesn't know how the story continues. ... Throughout the story, Poe talks about time to create further suspense. ... As you can see, the author created suspense from another perspective. ...

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Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Psychological Suspense Alfred Hitchcock has earned the title ofMaster of Suspense? ... From the 1920's until the 1970's, he has kept us on the edge of our seats for fifty years by, providing us mystery and suspense films. ...

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Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Psychological Suspense Alfred Hitchcock has earned the title ofMaster of Suspense? ... From the 1920's until the 1970's, he has kept us on the edge of our seats for fifty years by, providing us mystery and suspense films. ...

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He also uses some clichés that he used in some of his other books to build suspense. ... The author uses analogies while describing violence to cleverly to build up suspense in the readers mind. ... Again Stephen King builds suspense by overstating violence. The author uses the cliché of phobias to build suspense by foreshadowing future events. ... Stephen King makes her phobia for mosquitoes a big issue in this book in order to build suspense. ...

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Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a novel that is very realistic and packed with suspense. ... Besides characterization, King uses suspense to keep the reader intrigued. ... Just as in most baseball games, the suspense builds as the innings progress. ... But as the story progresses, Trisha's fear and continued misfortune create even greater suspense. ... Overall, this book is a very good suspense novel for almost any reader. ...

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Bronte successfully creates mystery and suspense in her novel through the use of both features of plot and narrative techniques. ... A climax of suspense and mystery is reached as Rochester steps out of his disguise. ... Bronte has successfully created tension and suspense as to the almost certainly tragic impending events. ... Rochester's failure to say more on the subject of the fire adds suspense, his vague answers bearing no satisfaction. As the suspense of impending danger fades, a new suspense mounts, the latter of Jane's unresolved feelings for Rochester and their co...

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In the novel Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte uses several acts of violence to create suspense, mystery, and characterization. This scene is probably the best one to create the suspense of the novel. ... That is why Charlotte Bronte used violence to create this kind of suspense. ... At last, the end of the novel, The suspense, mystery, and characterization are all told. ... She does this so they will be no mystery or suspense of what was going to happen in their future....

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Suspense plays a very important role in "The Most Dangerous Game" and "The Birds". ... All of these events add to the suspense of the situation, especially the gun shots. ... The suspense makes "The Most Dangerous Game" a very good story. ... Suspense plays a very important part in literature. ... Without suspense, "a book wouldn't be a book". ...

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Repetition Adds Suspense "The Things They Carried" by Tim O"Brien is a story that lacks drama in the beginning but has plenty towards the end. ... O"Brien's repetitious structure in "The Things They Carried" is by far the main factor that adds suspense in this story. ... Cross "relationship" with Martha and keeps them in suspense to find out what Lt. ... This makes for a brilliant story when the author can catapult a character (Ted Lavender) into a role of extreme importance and major suspense of the story. ... Cross" infatuation with Martha and Ted Lavender's death to add su...

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How do the two stories "The Red Room" and "The Signalman" build up tension and suspense. ... This too adds to the suspense that the book illustrates. ... Futhermore know one is named in either story which adds to the tension and suspense of the story. ... They both effectively build up tension and suspense. ... Both Stories don't disclose details until the end and this keeps the reader in suspense until the closing lines. ...

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Mystery stories are meant to keep the reader in suspense and shock right up until the end. ... Suspense is an important ingredient in a mystery story. ... (Alther, 24) The suspense in this short story is whether or not Jesse will get into a accident or not. ... This problem is developed by clues, suspense and conflicts throughout the story. ... With all these elements put together it creates a story full of surprises and suspense. ...

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The protagonists in each story experience suspense, horror and torture, creating two terrifying stories. ... The suspense experienced by the reader is nearly unbearable at this point. ... Both stories create suspense and emotions for the reader as the narrators encounter torture, fear and death. ... Poe uses time to create horror and suspense for both the protagonist and the reader. ... Suspense is created, as the narrator has no concept of time. ...

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However I think that the movie was really suspenseful and there were a number of different things that helped add to the suspense. ... There was a great use of music in this film which helped add to the suspense of the movie as well. ... So music in general was used by Alfred Hitchcock to add to the suspense of the movie. It was said that in many of his movies Alfred used black and white film even when color was already available to add to the suspense and frighten his audience. ... Alfred Hitchcock built up this story slowly and this also helped add to the suspense of the movie. ...

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Even the three characters build up suspense and tension because of the mystery surrounding them. ... Suspense is also created, when the narrator spoke and sang to himself to convince himself that there were no ghosts " began to string some rhymes together." When he goes into the red room the suspense rises a little, when he checks the room thoroughly and checks the locks on the door. ... The tension from this point rises up to where he lights the candles, and the suspense drops slightly. When the candles start going out one by one the fear and panic kicks in, as well as little suspense. ...

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This story is packed full of surprise, suspense, mystery, conflict, dilemma, and foreshadowing throughout the chapters. ... During this process an outstanding example of suspense was played out. As Bilbo walked further and further into the lair suspense starts to build dramatically from the author's descriptions of heat, steam, and sounds coming from the end of the passage. ... This part of the book exhibits only one of many great examples of mystery and suspense from the story. ...

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The film "The Shining" (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) uses sound, tracking shot, and lighting to create suspense in the shot where Danny meets the twins in the hallway while riding his tricycle. ... Lighting also plays a part is creating suspense in this shot. ... Suspense in a horror films doesn't follow a universal formula that always includes a jump cut. This scene from The Shining proves that sound, tracking shot, and lighting help reproduce the effect of suspense the same way a simple jump cut would....

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Another way setting incorporates to the elements of Romance is part of the Gothic Romance element, the atmosphere of mystery and suspense. ... The "Red Death" which in the end appears in the last room, is also an element of romance that has to deal with mystery and suspense. ... "When the eyes of prince Prospero fell upon this spectral image he was seen to be convulsed, in the first moment with a strong shudder either of terror or distaste- These elements of Romance all deal with the mystery and suspense of the story. Poe adds yet two more elements of romance into his story, mystery and suspen...

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The use of characterization, detail, and suspense keeps the reader intrigued and wanting more. ... Along with characterization and detail, Crichton uses suspense to keep the reader reading. ... This suspense makes you to wonder if the characters will survive in the end. ...

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The strangeness of Emily's behavior becomes evident through the use of foreshadowing, extended flashbacks, and suspense. ... The foreshadowing and the flashbacks coupled with the suspense brought Emily's bizarre life and behavior in to light for the town. ... Finally the suspense came when the body of Homer Barron was discovered in Emily's bedroom. ...

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